Pietari Inkinen opens two festivals with the DRP
Pietari Inkinen returns to the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie for two festival-opening concerts with music by Jean Sibelius and Gustav Mahler.
On 12 June 2026, Inkinen conducts the orchestra at the opening of the Opernfestspiele Heidenheim at the Festspielhaus Heidenheim. Two days later, on 14 June, the same programme opens the RheinVokal Festival at the Rhein-Mosel-Halle in Koblenz, with a live broadcast on SWR Kultur.
The programme brings together Sibelius’s symphonic fantasy “Pohjola’s Daughter”, a selection of songs for soprano and orchestra, including “Luonnotar”, and Mahler’s Symphony No. 4. Finnish soprano Tuuli Takala joins Inkinen and the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie as soloist.
Sibelius and Wagner in Singapore
On 6 November 2026, Pietari Inkinen conducts the Singapore Symphony Orchestra at the Esplanade Concert Hall in a programme devoted to Sibelius and Wagner, joined by soprano Johanna Rusanen, the Singapore Symphony Chorus and the Singapore Symphony Youth Choir.
Pietari Inkinen opens I Pomeriggi Musicali’s 2026/27 season in Milan
Pietari Inkinen returns to Milan to conduct the opening concerts of Orchestra I Pomeriggi Musicali’s 82nd symphonic season at the Teatro Dal Verme on 8 and 10 October 2026.
“Scenes from the Ring” in Copenhagen
On September 17 and 18, Pietari Inkinen returns to the DR Symphony Orchestra at Copenhagen’s DR Koncerthuset for two concerts devoted to Richard Wagner’s “Ring Cycle”.
Pietari Inkinen returns to KBS Symphony Orchestra
On 10 September 2026, Pietari Inkinen returns to the KBS Symphony Orchestra for the orchestra’s 830th Subscription Concert at Lotte Concert Hall in Seoul. The concert marks another reunion with the orchestra he served as Music Director until 2024.